Topic
Tabor
17 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- 1 Chronicles 6:77Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 3. A Levitical city in Zebulun
Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
- Joshua 19:12Smith · ISBE
And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
- Joshua 19:22ISBE · Nave 1. A mountain on the border of the tribe of Issachar
And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
- 1 Samuel 10:3Easton · Nave 2. A plain (R. V., “oak”) of unknown location
Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
- Psalms 89:12Easton · Nave 1. A mountain on the border of the tribe of Issachar
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
- Jeremiah 46:18Easton · Nave 1. A mountain on the border of the tribe of Issachar
As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
- Genesis 35:8Easton
But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
- Joshua 19:1–51Smith
And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and…
- Joshua 21:24ISBE
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
- Judges 4:6–14Easton
And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the…
- Judges 4:6Nave 1. A mountain on the border of the tribe of Issachar — The place for assembling Barak' s army
And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the…
- Judges 4:12Nave 1. A mountain on the border of the tribe of Issachar — The place for assembling Barak' s army
And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
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- Judges 4:14 Nave 1. A mountain on the border of the tribe of Issachar — The place for assembling Barak' s army
- Judges 8:18 Nave 1. A mountain on the border of the tribe of Issachar
- 1 Chronicles 6:1–81 Smith
- 1 Chronicles 6:17 ISBE
- Hosea 5:1 Nave 1. A mountain on the border of the tribe of Issachar
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 6 references
A height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive and grand. This is alluded to in Ps. 89:12; Jer. 46:18. It was here that Barak encamped before the battle with Sisera (q.v.) Judg. 4:6-14. There is an old tradition, which, however, is unfounded, that it was the scene of the transfiguration of our Lord. (See HERMON.) “The prominence and isolation of Tabor, standing, as it does, on the border-land between the northern and southern tribes, between the mountains and the central plain, made it a place of note in all ages, and evidently led the psalmist to associate it with Hermon, the one emblematic of the south, the other of the north.” There are some who still hold that this was the scene of the transfiguration (q.v.).
(2.) A town of Zebulum (1 Chr. 6:77).
(3.) The “plain of Tabor” (1 Sam. 10:3) should be, as in the Revised Version, “the oak of Tabor.” This was probably the Allon-bachuth of Gen. 35:8.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
ta'-ber, tar'-bor (tabhor; Codex Vaticanus Thachcheia; Codex Alexandrinus Thabor): One of the towns in the territory of Zebulun, given to the Merarite Levites (1Ch 6:77). The parallel list in Jos 21:24 f contains no name like this. There is no indication of its position. Some have thought that it may correspond to Daberath in the territory of Issachar (21:28), now represented by Deburiyeh on the western slope of Mt. Tabor; others that it may be the mountain itself; and yet others that it may be a city on the mountain, which probably was occupied from very early times. There is a Tabor mentioned as on the border of Issachar (Jos 19:22); but that is almost certainly the mountain. It has been suggested that Tabor in 1Ch 6:17 may be a contraction of Chisloth-tabor (Jos 19:12), the modern Iksal, 3 miles West of the mountain. No certainty is possible.
W. Ewing
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 10 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.